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Mandatory Seat Belt Laws Cause Dangerous Driving, and Invade Privacy0
- February 10, 1999
Synopsis: House Bill 99-1212, which makes driving or riding in a car without a seat belt into a “primary” traffic offense, is yet another attempt to control peoples own decisions about risk taking. Research shows that when reckless drivers are forced to buckle up, they drive even more recklessly. Thus, careful drivers (who wear seat belts by choice) are endangered. Moreover, mandatory seat belt laws also increase the risk that minorities or other groups will be victimized by pretextual traffic stops.
READ MOREVisiting Nurse Programs: A Good Idea, but Not with Tobacco Loot0
- February 10, 1999
Senate Bill 132 contains many provisions for what to do with the revenue from the new tobacco Asettlement@ (really, a new tobacco tax). The most worthwhile of these is for a visiting nurse program for at-risk new mothers. Such programs have an established record of success. In the long run, visiting nurse programs save the government a great deal of money, including reduced welfare and criminal justice costs. Any Visiting Nurse or similar program should be carefully structured to avoid civil liberties problems.
READ MOREMandatory Seat Belt Laws Cause Dangerous Driving, and Invade Privacy0
- February 10, 1999
Synopsis: House Bill 99-1212, which makes driving or riding in a car without a seat belt into a quot;primaryquot; traffic offense, is yet another attempt to control peoples own decisions about risk taking. Research shows that when reckless drivers are forced to buckle up, they drive even more recklessly. Thus, careful drivers (who wear seat
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Three Bills on the Charter School Front: Some Important Tweaking, and a Major Survival Measure0
- January 20, 1999
House Bill 1113 makes major improvements in charter school finance. SB 52 helps charter schools take advantage of computers; and SB 100 frees charter schools from the grip of anti-consumer school districts.
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Charter schools prove to ardent education reformers the oft repeated aphorism that politics is the art of the possible. While some in the reform camp would have much preferred vouchers and others the embrace by the education establishment of a rigorous, coherent, cognitive based mission, it is the Charter Schools movement that has caught on. It is Charter Schools that represent the best, most realistic hope of shifting the balance of power away from education providers to education consumers.RTD's Competitive Contracting Program: Cost Savings Produce More Service, Attract More Passengers0
- January 20, 1999
The competitive contracting program, which requires RTD to contract out 20% of its services to private contractors, has reversed RTD’s previous trend of increasing costs. The cost savings from competitive contracting has enabled RTD to improve service, resulting in the largest ridership gain of ant of the nation’s largest 25 bus systems. If the legislature raised the percent of RTD services which can be competitively contracted to 35% or more, the benefits to metro Denver mass transit users would be all the greater.
READ MORESafe Storage Is Unsafe Regulation0
- January 20, 1999
Colorado State Senator Pat Pascoe wants to make gun owners criminally responsible for the unauthorized use of their guns. As is the case with much of the rest of the plague of legislation that seeks to micromanage what people do and when they do it, this, too, is for the children. Fourteen children shot to
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